Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1953)

146 JUNE 1953 This department has been added to Movie Makers because you, the reader, want it. We welcome it to our columns. This is your place to sound off. Send us your comments, complaints or compliments. Address: The Reader Writes, Movm Makers, 420 Lexington Ave., New York 17, N. Y. DEEP APPRECIATION Dear Sirs: Will you kindly express to the Board of Directors my deep appreciation of the resolution adopted recognizing me as an officer of the League and, moreover, electing me an Honorary Life Member. I shall always remember my League service with pleasure, and I am glad that my future connection is assured. Stephen F. Voorhees, FACL New York City TTB IN CHICAGO Dear Mr. Moore: The Top of the Ten Best was all you said it was! Congratulations on your choice of such varied pictures to make up this program. And please accept the sincere thanks and appreciation of the Associated Amateur Cinema Clubs for coming to Chicago to present ACL's great show in person. Alice A. Koch Chairman 6th Annual Convention Associated Amateur Cinema Clubs Chicago, 111. Dear Mr. Moore: As I told you at the TTB screening, I think your prize-winning film package is terrific! I'm sure that it is going to do a great deal of good for ACL. Margaret Ostrom Director of Advertising Bell & Howell Company Chicago, 111. Dear Mr. Moore: I want to tell you again how much I enjoyed your wonderful Top of the Ten Best program. Your board of judges certainly is to be congratulated on their selections. To see amateurs achieve such professional heights was inspiring. Lois Myles Editor Panorama Bell & Howell Company Chicago, 111. TTB IN LOS ANGELES Dear Mr. Dibble: Everyone on the West Coast who saw the Top of the Ten Best is raving about the show! The members of the Los Angeles 8mm. Club, ACL, are especially thrilled to have been the club to premiere this wonderful program. We are grateful to ACL for preparing this outstanding feature film. Merle Williams Secretary Los Angeles 8mm. Club, ACL Los Angeles, Calif. Dear Mr. Moore : Well, I saw the Top of the Ten Best two weeks ago, presented here in our new County Recreation Hall. The show was presented very well and was equally well received. Duck Soup is a grand picture, while Birds of Washington and Muntre Streker are outstanding too. Having seen the TTB pictures, I am now most anxious for our own members to see them too. Charles J. Ross, ACL Los Angeles Cinema Club Los Angeles, Calif. TTB IN SAN FRANCISCO Dear ACL: Last night, presented under the sponsorship of the Golden Gate Cinematographers, ACL, I saw here in San Francisco the premiere of ACL's new Top of the Ten Best film program. The presentation of these movies was wonderful, and I would like to take this opportunity of thanking the League for preparing this outstanding cross section of amateur film endeavor. Harvey B. Woodworth, Jr., ACL San Francisco, Calif. With the majority of amateur movie clubs recessed during the summer, attractive booking dates are now available during the months of July and August for both the senior and junior Top of the Ten Best screen programs. Individual ACL members are invited to book these shows (running 90 and 45 minutes, respectively) for screenings at home or before their friends in club, school or church groups. Also, ACL's Top of the Ten Best would provide rich and rewarding entertainment for shut-ins at your local hospital, orphanage or old folks home. The League will be glad to aid any member in securing a Bell & Howell 202 magnetic sound projector on loan — if that equipment is needed for your screening. BEST FRIENDS OF FILMERS Dear ACL: The winter season is over in Miami, and the snow birds are on their way north again — meaning George Mesaros, FACL, and his wonderful wife Katie, both the best friends that filmers ever had. Mr. Mesaros has been a great help both to our club and to our members personally. He has worked on all our programs, helping to arrange and set up the meetings, editing films for days on end, putting on background music and the countless other things which have to be done to keep a club rolling. Cole Musilek, ACL President Miami Movie Makers Club, ACL Miami, Fla. TEN BEST AT THE ROYAL Gentlemen: I have recently had the pleasure of seeing a selection of your Ten Best amateur films at a centenary meeting of our Royal Photographic Society, and although I have seen a great many amateur films made in this country— including our own "Ten Best" — I have seldom seen anything to equal The Gannets and In Fancy Free. I was, in fact, so impressed by their excellence that I should, if eligible, very much like to become a member of the Amateur Cinema League. I may mention that I am a member of the Royal Photographic Society and of the Institute of Amateur Cinematographers over here and have been filming in 16mm. for the past twenty years. G. Maurice Wells Orpington, England The screening referred to by Mr. Wells is one of several sponsored by the Kinematograph Section of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, as part of the centenary celebrations marking the hundredth anniversary of the Society. The ACL, which sent from its Club Film Library Maxim Award winners In Fancy Free and The Gannets, together with Ten Best winner Menemsha, is proud to have taken part in honoring this venerable and distinguished photographic society. BACK COPIES OFFERED Dear ACL: From time to time you have published requests for back copies of Movie Makers. Since I have copied items in which 1 am interested on 16mm. positive film for future reference, I have a number of back issues in mint condition. I will gladly pass them on to any group interested in them. The charge? Shipping costs only. Charles J. Kirby, ACL 160 West Avenue Spencerport, N. Y. FILMING IN FLORIDA Dear ACL: I would truly welcome hearing from the ACLers who live in Florida and who might not object to a visit when we spend five weeks there this summer, from June 29 to August 2. I am especially anxious to hear from those who might suggest to me movie making ideas or subjects which will make my film more interesting. Haven Trecker, ACL 670 Enos Avenue Kankakee, 111.